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Stably exotic knotted surfaces up to equivalence
Abstract
In this short note we show the existence of stably exotic knotted surfaces in 4-manifolds in the sense that the embedded surfaces are topologically equivalent but are not smoothly equivalent even after any number of internal and external stabilisations.
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BibTeX
@misc{galvin2026stably,
title = {{Stably exotic knotted surfaces up to equivalence}},
author = {Daniel Galvin and Daniel Kasprowski},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.18783},
eprint = {2610.18783},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18783},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Stably exotic knotted surfaces up to equivalence
AU - Daniel Galvin
AU - Daniel Kasprowski
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/13
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.18783
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18783
AB - In this short note we show the existence of stably exotic knotted surfaces in 4-manifolds in the sense that the embedded surfaces are topologically equivalent but are not smoothly equivalent even after any number of internal and external stabilisations.
ER -